Let's Move to the Top of a Mountain

Scoobert Doobert · KŌAN · 2022 · From KŌAN

KŌAN A escape fantasy: me and you on the mountain: bear protection pact, ditch TV for the view, sick of oxygen, flower-named kids, roof naps and herbal tea.

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ISRC QZRP52103163 (soundexchange)

Track two on KŌAN, KŌAN A (March 18, 2022), after Think About It. Luke solo. Where track one spirals on NFTs and Schrödinger, this answers with a mountain utopia: a scat hook (do do do) and domestic fantasy as pop celebration. The grammar wobbles between on top of a mountain and to the top of a mountain, as if the plan isn’t quite real yet.

The fantasy is built from things the narrator has never had. Will you protect me? And I’ll protect you turns love into mutual guard duty against a nature he’s only met in a zoo, and I never ever ever ever seen a constellation is a quiet light-pollution confession. In between: ditch the television, name the kids after flowers, let them pick their own religion, sip herbal tea. Same wellness register as Don’t Worry and High Society, but sincere here rather than satirical.

The koan never resolves. You just sing yourself uphill. Pairs with Boardwalk as KŌAN A’s movement against wandering: one wants altitude, the other can’t leave the sand.

Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Artwork by Grizzard Graphics.

Lyrics

Let's move on top of a mountain
Me and you
Do do do
To the top of a mountain
Just me and you
Do do do

Celebration
We're going going going party
Did you know that I never seen
A bear not in a zoo
Will you protect me?
And I'll protect you

Television
Do we do we do we
Need it
I don't think that I ever will
Get tired this view
Yeah we got nature
I got you
Do do do

Let's move on top of a mountain
Tin tin tin
I'm getting sick of all this oxygen
We'll name our kids after flowers
And even let them pick their own religion

Move to the top of a mountain
Do do do
Me and you
Do do do
To the top of a mountain
Do do do
Just me and you
Do do do

Constellation
I never ever ever ever seen one
Take a nap on the roof with me
We'll wake up to the sun
Do do do
And in our kitchen
Sip herbal tea

Let's move on top of a mountain
Tin tin tin
I'm getting sick of all this oxygen
We'll name our kids after flowers
And even let them pick their own religion

Move to the top of a mountain
Do do do
Me and you
Do do do
To the top of a mountain
Do do do
Just me and you
Do do do